COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONBig Brown Ale aged on palo santo wood from Paraguay.
This beer is a 12% abv, highly roasty, and malty brown ale aged on the wood of the Palo Santo tree from Paraguay.
Palo Santo means "holy tree" and it's wood has been used in South American wine-making communities.
We were lucky enough to get our hands on 20 blocks of the super-dense wood and the wood was added to the ageing tank after fermentation.

Deep dark brown mocha color with a thin dark-brown head. Aroma is lightly sweet, a touch vineous, with lots of figs/raising/prunes. Flavor is large with bits of toffee and dark caramel, dark cherries, raisins and prunes. Almost a bit of leather, maybe from the wood - which is very mild, especially compared to some fresh oak barrel aged beers. Finish is long and lingering (in a good way).

The beer pours a deep, dark brown color with a small khaki-colored head that disappears quickly. The aroma contains caramel malts, wood, vanilla, toffee notes; the taste is quite umami, slightly sweet, slightly boozy, and a touch bitter, and the flavors were reminiscent of wood, tobacco, vanilla, and bourbon. Despite the high ABV, this beer was smooth, and it’s full body, oily and thick texture, and flat carbonation matched the flavors perfectly.

Tulip glass; pours deep brown with a tan head. Lacing present on the glass throughout the drink. Aroma of vanilla bean, coffee, chocolate, toffee, and booze. Taste is loads of vanilla, woody malt and more booze. This beer is very good, but I feel like at somewhere between 8-10% instead it could’ve been great.

Nose -- you can really smell the wood, caramel, nuttiness and alcohol. Just a tiny hint of smokiness. Poured super dark and super thick. Didn’t think it would be like this. The alcohol is really upfront with the woodiness, caramel, sweet malt and a bit of bitter. Finish is alcohol. Really great and I will pick up more.

Single bottle to tulip. Dark brown pour with a thin, slightly pinkish head. Vanilla, caramel, bourbon, and wood, and booze in the aroma. Flavor matches - the wood notes are a little much, but the sweetness knocks the woodiness back a little bit when it warms up a bit. Bitter coffee finish and aftertaste. Very creamy/full-bodied mouthfeel.

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